Saturday, October 31, 2015

Week 11, Reading Diary A, Krishna

This week I'm reading from Sister Nivedita's book "Cradle Tales" and the tales she has written about Krishna.

The Birth of Krishna

  • krishna is the twelfth child of Vasudeva and Devaki, prisoners of the king.
  • Krishna is switched at birth with a farmers daughter
The Divine Childhood
  • Krishna has great strength
  • kills many demons
  • has strange skills like turning rice into jewels
Krishna in the Forest
  • All the commoners have love for Krishna
  • Krishna likes to play games with the Gopis
  • Krishna kills more demons
The Dilemma of Brahma
  • Brahma tests Krishna to see if he is god or human = definitely divine
The Serpent Kaliya
  • Poison lake of Kaliya
  • Krishna brings his friends back to life with his tears
  • banishes Kaliya from the lake
The Lifting of the Mountain
  • Krishna says worship of Indra is an old custom
  • Indra gets mad and sends down a torrent of rain
  • Krishna picks up mountain and shelters the town

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